Governor Nasir El-rufai and the Rise of Emperor Nero in Kaduna State - Fame Agidife

Governor Nasir El-rufai,
Kaduna State.

Your Excellency,

YOUR RULE OF TERROR AND YOUR RISE AS EMPEROR NERO OF KADUNA STATE.

It is has been a matter of public concern in respect to the subject matter as 

mentioned above. And I  feel as a concern citizen it is imperative to write you openly through this medium to express the sincere feelings, saddened hearts and

discomforting head aches of so many citizens of this great country on how you have turned Kaduna State to the reign of Emperor Nero of the ancient State of Rome.

Your arrest of Dr.  John Danfulai and his detention against his fundamental human right as to his freedom to express his personal opinion on his personal life, his family, his environment and his interests which you were voted for primarily to serve him and the rest citizens of Kaduna State as a chief  Custodian of laws and among which freedom of information act that was enacted into law by the past administration are incuded to protect. Your actions not just unjust but also absurd from a man of your person who has been the foremost beneficiary of such rights in this country due to your antics of always criticizing the previous government that was in power and of which its popularism you rode on to be voted into becoming Governor. 

Your grand styles through your draconian policies to ban and silence the critics of your miss governance and those who are in direct opposition to your religion believes in Kaduna State are no longer news in the public space, but let me remind you:

'Religion is not just the opium of the people but it has also become a historical realism that no religion survives the tide of time excepts it is allowed by God'. And if it is true that the Shiite  Muslim Sect are allowed to exist by the very invincible existence of the Most High who allows the vincible to exist then watch your back against the invincibility against the vincible. 

If you do not know and you care to know how the invincibility of the Most High had dealt with tyrant like you in the past in the likes of Emperor Nero and Adolf Hitler who killed over six million Jews in his bid to exterminate the Jewish State and their religion you will know. And what happened to the later end of Emperor Nero who rose in his wildest madness to embark on the total examination of the Christian Sect you will know. 

Less I forget, am not a ssympathizer of the Shiite Muslim Sect neither am I their lawyer holding a brief for them. Am just a writer and a concern citizen of this great country, Nigeria who is a hater of oppression and a lover of good governance and a borned practising Christian with Christianity running all over my veins, so do not get me twisted. I just believe in life what is just is just and what is unjust is unjust. Stop oppressing the oppressed through the instument of power that you never create neither last with you forever.

Nero Persecutes The Christians, 64 A.D.

A generation after the death of Christ, Christianity had reached Rome in the form of an obscure offshoot of Judaism popular among the city's poor and destitute. Members of this religious sect spoke of the coming of a new kingdom and a new king. These views provoked suspicion among the Jewish authorities who rejected the group and fear among the Roman authorities who perceived these sentiments as a threat to the Empire.

A Roman mosaic shows prisoners
put to death in the arena
as part of a festivalIn the summer of 64, Rome suffered a terrible fire that burned for six days and seven nights consuming almost three quarters of the city. The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement. In order to deflect these accusations and placate the people, Nero laid blame for the fire on the Christians. The emperor ordered the arrest of a few members of the sect who, under torture, accused others until the entire Christian populace was implicated and became fair game for retribution. As many of the religious sect that could be found were rounded up and put to death in the most horrific manner for the amusement of the citizens of Rome. The ghastly way in which the victims were put to death aroused sympathy among many Romans, although most felt their execution justified.

Beginnings of Christian Martyrdom

"Therefore, to stop the rumor [that he had set Rome on fire], he [Emperor Nero] falsely charged with guilt, and punished with the most fearful tortures, the persons commonly called Christians, who were [generally] hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of that name, was put to death as a criminal by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the reign of Tiberius, but the pernicious superstition - repressed for a time, broke out yet again, not only through Judea, - where the mischief originated, but through the city of Rome also, whither all things horrible and disgraceful flow from all quarters, as to a common receptacle, and where they are encouraged. Accordingly first those were arrested who confessed they were Christians; next on their information, a vast multitude were convicted, not so much on the charge of burning the city, as of "hating the human race."

In their very deaths they were made the subjects of sport: for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts, and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights. Nero offered his own garden players for the spectacle, and exhibited a Circensian game, indiscriminately mingling with the common people in the dress of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot. For this cause a feeling of compassion arose towards the sufferers, though guilty and deserving of exemplary capital punishment, because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but were victims of the ferocity of one man."

Political Demise and Death of Emperor Nero

After the Great Fire, Nero resumed plans for the Domus Aurea. In order to finance this project, Nero needed money and set about to get it however he pleased. He sold positions in public office to the highest bidder, increased taxes and took money from the temples. He devalued currency and reinstituted policies to confiscate property in cases of suspected treason.

These new policies resulted in the Pisonian conspiracy, a plot formed in 65 by Gaius Calpurnius Piso, an aristocrat, along with knights, senators, poets and Nero's former mentor, Seneca. They planned to assassinate Nero and crown Piso the ruler of Rome. The plan was discovered, however, and the leading conspirators, as well as many other wealthy Romans, were executed.

Just three years later, in March, 68, the governor Gaius Julius Vindex rebelled against Nero's tax policies. He recruited another governor, Servius Sulpicius Galba, to join him and to declare himself emperor. While these forces were defeated and Galba was declared a public enemy, support for him increased, despite his categorization as a public enemy. Even Nero’s own bodyguards defected in support of Galba.

Fearing that his demise was imminent, Nero fled. He planned to head east, where many provinces were still loyal to him, but had to abandon the plan after his officers refused to obey him. He returned to his palace, but his guards and friends had left. He ultimately received word that the Senate had condemned him to death by beating and so he decided to commit suicide. Unable to carry out the deed by himself, however, his secretary, Epaphroditos, assisted him. As he died, Nero was said to have exclaimed, ‘What an artist dies in me!' He was the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors.